Saturday, September 06, 2008

Governor's New Private Jet, Better Than the Old Private Jet

Hey, I understand that a private aircraft is the only way to get around efficiently on the grueling drive of a presidential campaign. Seriously, you simply cannot do it if you're waiting for that connection in Atlanta. For this kind of use, private jets make eminent sense.

Still, I do enjoy seeing faux populists get cornered when reality comes knockin'.

The lede on the story about the delivery of Gov. Palin's new private campaign jet in the Arizona Daily Star of Tucson: "Will she sell this one on E-Bay?"

Bio

Joe Sharkey's work appears in major national and international publications. For 19 years until 2015 he was a weekly columnist for the New York Times. He is now a weekly travel and entertainment columnist with the global website Travel.Buzz, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, He has written five books, four non-fiction and a novel, one of which is in development as a movie. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
On Sept. 29, 2006, he was one of seven people on a business jet who survived a mid-air collision with a 737 over the Amazon. All 154 on the 737 died. His report on the crash appeared on the front page of the New York Times and later in the Sunday Times of London magazine.
He and his wife Nancy (who is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona) live in Tucson with horses and parrots. He is working on a new novel about an international travel writer who hates to travel.
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